I'm sure someone can come up with a better pun.

It was the kind of pun anyone made at times.

To this end, his name is often used as a pun.

More: it was a pun that only I would get.

Which I thought was an interesting pun in this case.

When the pun was brought to his attention, he laughed.

There was more to that pun than met the eye.

They were still explaining the green pun to each other.

To make a mean pun, I had taken it for granted.

Taking advantage of the first opportunity, I make some pun.

The name is a pun on the term "Down and out".

Her name is a pun of "Give me the half".

My husband Richard for the worst pun in the book.

He put his face in there, no pun intended, to make a play.

The original title of the series is based on a pun.

She had to smile at the pun, whether they caught it or not.

I thought he was going to lower his hand to the aluminum pun.

That was a pun, as is the title of this piece.

His name seems to be a pun on the word meteor.

The answer to the clue is generally a pun of some sort.

Which still left the field wide open, if you'll pardon the pun.

We are sitting on a bomb here and that's no pun.

This is much too serious a book to treat that as a pun.

My daughter wanted to reach me so badly, she had made a pun.

Paronomasia is a needless joke: He needs no fire to turn him into smoke.

For these passages of doom on the various cities, the device paronomasia is used.

Paronomasia is a literary device which 'plays' on the sound of each word for literary effect.

There exist subtle differences between paronomasia and other literary techniques, such as the double entendre.

There were several examples of the word play paronomasia like: "We cannot guarantee the outcome, but we shall guarantee the opportunity."

Its title is a paronomasia of the famous comedic play, She Stoops to Conquer.

Although some linguists have called this stumblepunning "unwitting paronomasia," the better word is mondegreen.

Edmond's affianced Mercedes transforms herself (in an unforgivable example of automobile paronomasia) into Portia.

Why can't they be Jennerated (ah, that devilish imp, Paronomasia, intrudes again).

Plautus might seem more verbose, but where he lacks in physical comedy he makes up for it with words, alliteration and paronomasia (punning).

Ahmose I. Jacobovici suggests that the name of the Pharaoh at the time of the Exodus may have been a pun (paronomasia).

Though most of the Paronomasia is lost in translation, it is the equivalent of 'Ashdod shall be but ashes,' where the fate of the city matches its name.

Headline writers are often given to paronomasia (which they would probably call punning, as paronomasia , which would not fit into most headlines, is not in their vocabulary).

Para - A greek prefix which came to designate objects or activities auxiliary to or derivative of that denoted by the base word ( parody; paronomasia, paranoia) and hence abnormal or defective.

Another more obscure activity he claims to enjoy is paronomasia or "the use of words that sound similar to other words, but have different meanings - or to be more blunt - puns or punning."

Indeed, where pure description is inadequate to truly capture the spirit of an object, Ponge employs auditory effects (e.g. assonance, sibilance, and paronomasia) as well as images that delight all the senses.

Like other forms of wordplay, paronomasia is occasionally used for its attention-getting or mnemonic qualities, making it common in titles and the names of places, characters, and organizations, and in advertising and slogans.

As the sarcastic epitaph on Acron is probably the most complete jeu de mots on record, and therefore defies all translation, it will be given in Greek to preserve the paronomasia of the original:

The pun, also called paronomasia, is a form of word play which suggests two or more meanings, by exploiting multiple meanings of words, or of similar-sounding words, for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect.

For hours I walked aching with laughter in this land of Paronomasia, where the whole Dictionary had arrayed itself in strophe and antistrophe, and was dancing a ludicrous chorus of quirk and quibble.

He writes, "Many such cases of double entendre, paronomasia in one language or another, sometimes two at once, numerical-literal puzzles, and even (on one occasion) an illuminating connexion of letters in various lines by a slashing scratch, will be found in the Qabalistic section of the Commentary."

The President's punning, or paronomasia, in which he played off the "separations of powers" against the "power of separations" was a muddle, and his suggestion that Saddam Hussein had been appropriately dealt with by being "locked . . . in the prison of his own country" struck many listeners as nonsensical.